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Originally Posted by scho63
I won't hold the fact you live in Flor-e-duh against you but the facts speak for themselves, no matter how politically correct you and a few other bleeding hearts here want to make it.
The amount of money the US has thrown at the Native American community, including the Casinos and tax free cigarettes has been massive.
The State of Native America: Very Unemployed and Mostly Ignored
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6801
A survey of death certificates over a four-year period showed that deaths among Indians due to alcohol are about four times as common as in the general US population and are often due to traffic collisions and liver disease with homicide, suicide, and falls also contributing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_alcoholism |
This post does a fantastic job of ignoring the environmental racism, educational genocide, eugenics, and sterilization practices that the U.S committed against the Native American people. You know, the practices we were still enforcing until the 1980's.
(The environmental racism is still alive and well, though, as the majority of our nuclear waste ends up dumped on Native American lands.)